I’m trying very hard to keep from posting photos of dead children. One reason is that seems emotionally manipulative, and the other more obvious reason is that they are just so hard to look upon. I may not be able to refrain much longer. If it takes photos of Syrian children gasping their final breath to jar people, well so be it. We need to decide who we are as a country…

It’s nearly impossible to put the politics of the region aside. This war (like all wars) is about resources and who controls them. The British, France, Germany and America were stoking the fires of radical Islam way back in the 19th century as a way to justify occupation. It still goes on today.

At this point, I just want to see Bashar al-Assad removed from power and jailed.

Over at Dispatches from the Culture Wars, the other day, a commenter said something about stopping people from flying planes into tall buildings. I said the best way to do that was to stop giving them reasons to do so. Radical Islam has existed for as long as islam, just like fundamentalist Christianity and Ultra-Orthodox Judaism. But the radicals in the muslim ranks have had an absolute turboboost from the shitheads in the neo-con and Aipac ranks.

Trumpligula’s a jerkish dickwad who has no clue about how government works and he has no interest in learning. Rex Tillerson is really good at MAKING people who work for him do what he wants them to do–not so much when it comes to countries that don’t get a check every week.The current pretendsident’s Russkibesty, Tsar Vlad, is perfectly happy to stir the pot because he knows that nobody can do anything to him without starting a nuclear conflagration (that he is wrong on that score won’t become obvious to him until he gets a third eye, courtesy of the palace guard).

I could go on in this vein for hours, but I won’t because I want other people to do so.

I hope that I don’t have to wait, well, too long, for your next post, Mac.

Figuring out “what to do about Assad” is way above my pay grade. Complicated region with a lot of players. I don’t know if sending 60 Tomahawk missiles into an airfield is going to do anything or not; I DO remember Republicans criticizing President Clinton for “wasting money” “sending a missile into an empty tent” when he tried to take out Bin Laden. What I DO know, without a doubt, is that the current turd-in-chief can spare me his alligator tears over “precious little babies” when he shut the door on refugees from this hellhole and even said Syrian refugees currently in the U.S. should be sent back. One of the best ways to help actual Syrian babies is to welcome them into this country. Trump would rather bomb an airfield. We’ll see what happens.

I”m not the strategist, Mack50 (is that a new blognomen? I hope it’s not how old you are–that would make me feel even more ancient!) but it seems to me that FIRST you crater the runways then you blow up all the shit that can’t fly off.

The cynic in me says that Trumpligula, through his “hands-off my business interests” promise just found out that launching 60 cruise missiles would make for a significant blip in the stocks that one of his many tentacled properties owns in say, “Cruise Missles ‘R’ Us”. Just a guess.